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Advanced optics capture structures as small as 20 kilometers on the surface of the sun The sunspot image taken by NSF's Inouye Solar Telescope's Wave Front Correction context viewer. December 9, 2020 The world's largest solar observatory, the U.S. National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, has released its first image of a sunspot. Although the telescope is still in the final phases of completion, the image is an indication of how the telescope's advanced optics and 4-meter primary mirror will give scientists the best view of the sun from Earth throughout the next solar c...

Now in route to the eastern part of the state near south dakota. you picked it for a reason, why? >> i did what a lot of people are doing. i looked at all the wets maps and tried to figure out where i'll get clear skies and a nice long time to bask in the moon's shadow because it would be pretty bummed out to make the preparation and watch the sun hanging out behind a cloud. >> bill: you don't want that. as a scientist what are you hoping to learn from this or observe? do you know or have an idea? >> i've talked to a bunch of different astronomers about this. there is going to be a lot of real...

Solar physics, to -- the field we're seeing when the moon is block the sun is the, the ionized glass, the plasma field around the sun that's kind of the whole key idea how we maybe will generate power in the future with fusion reactors. trying to understand how does plasma actually kreye fusion and generate that power? this gives us a window of insight that we can't get any other way. especially right close to the surface. pretty interesting scientific day. >> yes. very interesting. and scott holly, professor of physics, what was it like for you to experience at least up front from the tv scre...